Working with Git and its great branching/merging features is
amazing. Constantly switching branches can be confusing though as you have to
run git status
to see which branch you're currently on.
The solution to this is to have your terminal prompt display the current branch. There's a number of articles available online about how to achieve this. This project is an attempt to make an easy to install/configure solution.
If you cd
to a Git working directory, you will see the current Git branch
name displayed in your terminal prompt. When you're not in a Git working
directory, your prompt works like normal.
Clone the project to a .bash
folder in your home directory:
mkdir ~/.bash
cd ~/.bash
git clone git://github.com/jimeh/git-aware-prompt.git
Edit your ~/.bash_profile
or ~/.profile
or ~/.bashrc
(for Ubuntu) and add the following to the top:
export GITAWAREPROMPT=~/.bash/git-aware-prompt
source "${GITAWAREPROMPT}/main.sh"
Once installed, there will be new $git_branch
and $git_dirty
variables
available to use in the PS1
environment variable, along with a number of
color helper variables which you can see a list of in colors.sh.
If you want to know more about how to customize your prompt, I recommend this article: How to: Change / Setup bash custom prompt (PS1)
Below are a few suggested prompt configurations. Simply paste the code at the end of the same file you pasted the installation code into earlier.
export PS1="\u@\h \W \[\$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[\$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[\$txtrst\]\$ "
Optionally, if you want a nice pretty prompt when using sudo -s
, also add
this line:
export SUDO_PS1="\[$bakred\]\u@\h\[$txtrst\] \w\$ "
Standard:
export PS1="\${debian_chroot:+(\$debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w \[$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[$txtrst\]\$ "
Colorized:
export PS1="\${debian_chroot:+(\$debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\] \[$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[$txtrst\]\$ "
export PS1="\[\033]0;$MSYSTEM:\w\007\033[32m\]\u@\h:\[\033[33m\w \[$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[$txtrst\]\033[0m\]\$ "
Assuming you followed the default installation instructions and cloned this
repo to ~/.bash/git-aware-prompt
:
cd ~/.bash/git-aware-prompt
git pull
To view other user's tips, please check the Usage Tips wiki page. Or if you have tips of your own, feel free to add them :)